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Showing releases 1-25 out of 50.
Public Release: 2-Feb-2012
ORNL, partners earn FLC honor for cookstove technology Envirofit International, the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Colorado State University have won a Federal Laboratory Consortium award for excellence in technology transfer for a clean-burning cookstove designed for the developing world. Contact: Ron Walli
Public Release: 1-Feb-2012
PNNL's Mike Kluse named Laboratory Director of the Year PNNL Director Mike Kluse has been named 2012 Laboratory Director of the Year by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for his support of technology transfer and commercialization. Contact: Franny White
Public Release: 1-Feb-2012
 Nano LettersSelf-assembling nanorods: Berkeley Lab researchers obtain 1-, 2- and 3-D nanorod arrays and networks Berkeley Lab researchers have developed a relatively fast, easy and inexpensive technique for inducing nanorods to self-assemble into aligned and ordered macroscopic structures. This technique should enable more effective use of nanorods in solar cells, magnetic storage devices and sensors, and boost the electrical and mechanical properties of nanorod-polymer composites. 
US Department of Energy, Office of Science
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 1-Feb-2012
Astrophysical JournalScientists help define structure of exoplanets Using models similar to those used in weapons research, scientists may soon know more about exoplanets, those objects beyond the realm of our solar system. In a new study, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists and collaborators came up with new methods for deriving and testing the equation of state of matter in exoplanets and figured out the mass-radius and mass-pressure relations for materials relevant to planetary interiors. Contact: Anne Stark
Public Release: 1-Feb-2012
Developing power-over-fiber communications cable: When total isolation is a good thing Sometimes total electrical isolation is a good thing -- and that's the idea behind a power-over-fiber communications cable being developed by engineers at Sandia National Laboratories. Contact: Sue Holmes
Public Release: 31-Jan-2012
Sandia tool determines value of solar photovoltaic power systems Consistent appraisals of real estate outfitted with photovoltaic installations are a challenge for the nation's real estate industry, but a new tool developed by Sandia National Laboratories and Solar Power Electric and licensed by Sandia addresses that issue.
US Department of Energy/Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Contact: Stephanie Hobby
Public Release: 31-Jan-2012
Astrophysical JournalIBEX probe glimpses interstellar neighborhood Space scientists, including researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory, today described the first detailed analyses of captured interstellar neutral atoms -- raw material for the formation of new stars, planets and even human beings. Full details of the research comprise a six-paper special section in the February edition of Astrophysical Journal Supplements. Contact: James E. Rickman
Public Release: 31-Jan-2012
ORNL microscopy reveals 'atomic antenna' behavior in graphene Atomic-level defects in graphene could be a path forward to smaller and faster electronic devices. Contact: Morgan McCorkle
Public Release: 30-Jan-2012
Nano LettersResearch at Rice University leads to nanotube-based device for communication, security, sensing Researchers at Rice University are using carbon nanotubes as the critical component of a robust terahertz polarizer that could accelerate the development of new security and communication devices, sensors and noninvasive medical imaging systems as well as fundamental studies of low-dimensional condensed matter systems.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Robert A. Welch Foundation
Contact: David Ruth
Public Release: 30-Jan-2012
Reducing ion exchange particles to nano-size shows big potential Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory have successfully shown that they can replace useful little particles of an ion exchange material with even tinier nano-sized particles, making them even more useful for a variety of applications. Contact: Angeline French
Public Release: 30-Jan-2012
DOE Joint Genome Institute 7th Annual MeetingDOE Joint Genome Institute 7th Annual Meeting on March 20-22, 2012 The 7th Annual Genomics of Energy and Environment Meeting of the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute will take place at the Marriott in Walnut Creek, Calif. on March 20-22, 2012. The talks will focus on genomics research in the fields of clean energy generation and the environment. The keynote speakers are Steven Benner, Distinguished Fellow of the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution and Carl Zimmer, a science writer for the New York Times. Contact: David Gilbert
Public Release: 30-Jan-2012
Angewandte ChemieBright lights of purity Berkeley Lab researchers have discovered why a promising technique for making quantum dots and nanorods has so far been a disappointment. Better still, they've also discovered how to correct the problem.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 30-Jan-2012
Sandia's self-guided bullet prototype can hit target a mile away Take two Sandia National Laboratories engineers who are hunters, get them talking about the sport and it shouldn't be surprising when the conversation leads to a patented design for a self-guided bullet that could help war fighters. Contact: Heather Clark
Public Release: 27-Jan-2012
Advanced MaterialsEureka! Kitchen gadget inspires scientist to make more effective plastic electronics A kitchen gadget that vacuum seals food in plastic inspired a Rutgers physicist to improve the performance of organic transistors for potential use in video displays.
US Department of Energy, Institute for Advanced Materials and Devices for Nanotechnology
Contact: Carl Blesch
Public Release: 26-Jan-2012
Report spotlights Sandia Lab's impact on the economy Sandia National Laboratories spent close to $1 billion overall on the procurement of goods and services in fiscal year 2011, and small businesses across the nation were awarded more than half those dollars, $540 million or 59 percent, according to the Labs' latest economic impact report. Contact: Nancy Salem
Public Release: 26-Jan-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesHow seawater could corrode nuclear fuel Japan used seawater to cool nuclear fuel at the stricken Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant after the tsunami in March 2011 -- and that was probably the best action to take at the time, says Professor Alexandra Navrotsky at UC Davis. But Navrotsky and others have since discovered a new way in which seawater can corrode nuclear fuel, forming uranium compounds that could potentially travel long distances, either in solution or as very small particles.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Andy Fell
Public Release: 26-Jan-2012
NatureScientists create new atomic X-ray laser Lab scientists and international collaborators have created the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved, fulfilling a 45-year-old prediction and ultimately opening the door to new medicines, devices and materials. Contact: Anne Stark
Public Release: 26-Jan-2012
Current BiologyViruses con bacteria into working for them MIT researchers have discovered that certain photosynthetic ocean bacteria need to beware of viruses bearing gifts. These viruses are really con artists carrying genetic material taken from their previous bacterial hosts that tricks the new host into using its own machinery to activate the genes, a process never before documented in any virus-bacteria relationship. The con occurs when a grifter virus injects its DNA into a bacterium living in a phosphorus-starved region of the ocean.
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: Denise Brehm
Public Release: 26-Jan-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesBerkeley Lab researchers discover critical rotational motion in cells Berkeley Lab researchers have discovered a rotational motion that plays a critical role in the ability of breast cells to form the spherical structures in the mammary gland known as acini. This rotation, called "CAMo," for coherent angular motion, is necessary for the cells to form spheres. Otherwise, cells undergo random motion, leading to loss of structure and malignancy.
US Department of Energy, Office of Science, NIH/National Cancer Institute, US Department of Defense Breast Cancer Program
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 25-Jan-2012
PNNL recognized for technology transfer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is receiving a Federal Laboratory Consortium award for bringing a lab-developed technology that improves research sample analysis to the marketplace. Contact: Franny White
Public Release: 25-Jan-2012
Lawrence Livermore physicist John Edwards elected 2011 Fellow of American Physical Society John Edwards, associate program director for inertial confinement fusion and high energy density science at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has been selected as a 2011 American Physical Society fellow. Contact: Breanna Bishop
Public Release: 25-Jan-2012
NatureScientists create first atomic X-ray laser Scientists have created the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved, fulfilling a 45-year-old prediction and opening the door to a new range of scientific discovery. The researchers aimed SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source at a capsule of neon gas, setting off an avalanche of X-ray emissions to create the world's first "atomic X-ray laser."
US Department of Energy
Contact: Andy Freeberg
Public Release: 25-Jan-2012
NatureWorld's most powerful X-ray laser creates 2-million-degree matter Researchers working at the US Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have used the world's most powerful X-ray laser to create and probe a 2-million-degree piece of matter in a controlled way for the first time. This feat takes scientists a significant step forward in understanding the most extreme matter found in the hearts of stars and giant planets, and could help experiments aimed at recreating the nuclear fusion process that powers the sun.
US Department of Energy/Office of Science
Contact: Andy Freeberg
Public Release: 24-Jan-2012
PLoS ONEUnder the electron microscope -- a 3-D image of an individual protein Berkeley Lab scientists are reporting the first 3-D images of an individual protein ever obtained with enough clarity to determine its structure. Contact: Sabin Russell
Public Release: 24-Jan-2012
Physical Review LettersRice lab mimics Jupiter's Trojan asteroids inside a single atom Rice University physicists have built an accurate model of part of the solar system inside a single atom. In a new paper in Physical Review Letters, Rice's team and collaborators from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Vienna University of Technology showed they could make an electron orbit the atomic nucleus in the same way that Jupiter's Trojan asteroids orbit the sun. The findings uphold a 1920 prediction by physicist Niels Bohr.
National Science Foundation, Welch Foundation, Austrian Science Fund, US Department of Energy
Contact: Jade Boyd
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